U.S. and Iranian officials held talks on Iraq in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region "a while ago," Iraq's Al-Sharqiya television quoted President Jalal Talabani as saying on Saturday.U.S., Iranian and Iraqi officials could not confirm the report. According to Sharqiya, Talabani told Iraqi and Arab writers during a spring cultural festival that the talks took place in the lakeside mountain resort of Dukan and that discussions were "dedicated to the Iraqi issue." It said Talabani, a Kurd, expected such meetings to continue to be held, but provided no more details. Iranian and U.S. officials have said in the past that they would hold talks to discuss Iraq, without giving a date... http://abcnews.go.com

The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration is under federal investigation amid accusations of financial improprieties and making false statements to Congress, a newspaper reported Saturday.The New York Times, citing attorney Barbara Van Gelder, said a grand jury has begun a criminal investigation of Lester Crawford. She declined further comment.Van Gelder told a federal magistrate in a telephone hearing Thursday that she would instruct Crawford to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if ordered to answer questions about his actions as head of the FDA, a transcript of the hearing shows....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12542539/from/RSS/

The Justice Department said Friday it was moving to dismiss a federal lawsuit challenging the Bush administration’s secretive domestic wiretapping program. The lawsuit, brought by the Internet privacy group, Electronic Frontier Foundation, does not include the government. Instead, it names AT&T, which the San Francisco-based group accuses of colluding with the National Security Agency to make communications on AT&T networks available to the spy agency without warrants. The government, in a filing here late Friday, said the lawsuit threatens to expose government and military secrets and therefore should be tossed. As part of its case, the EFF said it obtained documents from a former AT&T technician showing that the NSA is capable of monitoring all communications on AT&T’s network, and those documents are under seal. The former technician said the documents detail secret NSA spying rooms and electronic surveillance equipment in AT&T facilities....http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12543642/from/RSS/

A 62-year-old retired schoolteacher is fighting with a cable company over a hefty bill for porn and gangsta rap programming she says she never ordered. The charges of more than $1,000 appeared on Claudia Lee's February Cablevision bill, shortly after she bundled her cable TV, computer and phone services."They are harassing me and trying to make me pay for something I didn't do," said Lee, who lives alone.She said she has been forced to pay $779 to the company and was told to pay $652 more or face having her services cut off."Every time I call, somebody tells me something different. They're not on the same page," she said Thursday....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193675,00.html

Pakistan has successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable missile with a range of 2,000km (1,250 miles), the Pakistani military has said. It was the second test-firing of the surface-to-surface Hatf VI (Shaheen II) missile, which was first tested in March 2005, officials said. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz watched the launch, at an undisclosed location. The Hatf VI is Pakistan's longest-range ballistic missile system, with the potential to reach 2,500km. "The missile test was conducted to validate additional technical parameters beyond those that were verified in the last test fire in March 2005," a military statement said. Pakistan informed its regional neighbours of the test in advance, and said it would not hurt improving relations with India, the Associated Press news agency said. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4957218.stm

The US military has charged the former head of the interrogation centre at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison over the abuse of Iraqi detainees. Lt-Col Steven Jordan has been charged with seven offences including maltreatment of prisoners. He is the highest ranking officer to face criminal charges over events at the prison. Ten lower-ranking soldiers have already been convicted for abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib from 2003 to 2004. Two officers more senior than Lt-Col Jordan have been disciplined by the army over the scandal, but neither faced criminal charges. The BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says the new development could throw some light on how the situation actually arose. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4956946.stm